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Letter "S" » smites
«The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.»
Author: Robert Bridges
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Physician,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blast,
chimney,
chimneys,
flail,
flailing,
gale,
gales,
shuddered,
shuddering,
shudders,
smites,
smiting,
smitten,
south wind,
strengthens,
The Clouds,
the South
«Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also»
«In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(
Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
dismal,
harp,
harper,
harpers,
harping,
lines,
pined,
pines,
pining,
rain down,
slant,
slanted,
slanting,
smites,
smiting,
smote,
thunder
«The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is the shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.»
«And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.»
«As the lightning at all times smites irresistibly the tree, thus would I to-day irresistibly beat the gamesters with my dice!»
«Come, my friends,'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Keywords:
baths,
furrow,
furrowed,
furrows,
hold off,
newer,
smite,
smites,
smiting,
sounding,
sound off,
sunset,
The Western,
Western
«Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites»
«But that two-handed engine at the door, / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.»
«Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.»
Author: Martin Luther
(
Priest,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
devilish,
emperor,
hurtful,
openly,
outlaw,
poisonous,
proved,
rebel,
remembering,
secretly,
seditious,
slay,
smite,
smites,
smiting,
stab,
The Emperor